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Wallace Yip, Sr. was in basic training at Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: Camp Claiborne, Rapides Parish, Louisiana...
Herbert W. Ridyard performed guard duty at a bakery at Mettmann, Germany after the war. This duty consisted of two...
William Epperson saw the concentration camp at Dachau while he was stationed in Munich. The first attempt had been...
John Laborde was in Yokohama, Japan for the surrender of the Japanese. His group was told the Japanese were going to...
George A. Damiano had issues with a new commanding officer [Annotator's while serving on occupation duty in Korea with...
Alan Moskin always says he is one of the lucky ones. He got emotional some time ago speaking and some of the guilt...
James Jordan deployed overseas right after OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] at the end of 1945 or first...
When their training schedule was complete, James “Jim” R. Boyd and the rest of his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Motor...
Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...
F.M. Richard Simons was a disc jockey for a while and then had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...
Angelo Ciotta was shot in the leg and evacuated to an Army hospital in Guam. He spent ten days there and then went to...
James Jordan and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 333rd Engineer Special Service Regiment] were...
Roy Cascio was a dispatcher for the motor pool [Annotator’s Note: for the 27th Air Supply Squadron, 27th Air Depot...
Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] was a very beautiful city from the outside to Herbert Yudenfriend. There...
David McKinley Blackwell served as a cook with the 30th Evacuation Hospital in the Pacific Theater. Not only did he...
[Annotator's Note: Arthur McHardy was stationed in Tientsin, China with the 1st Marine Division.] He was sent to guard...
On the way to China, the ship Raymond Loidolt was on ran into a hurricane [Annotator's Note: typhoon]. The ship was...
Paul Fair moved on to Japan after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August 1945, officially...
Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was part of a GROPAC Unit [Annotator's Note: GROPAC Units...
Roy Cascio only knew the atomic bombs ended the war [Annotator's Note: Nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...
Robert Mayes knew the end of the war was impending when the Germans were trying to surrender to his unit [Annotator's...
When the war in Europe ended, James B. Jones was told he would be going to Japan. The invasion was cancelled after the...
Dominic Geraci was overseas for 26 months. He stayed with the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. He was...
After the Battle of the Bulge, Elmer Knudsen was deployed close to the Rhine River and was billeted in a private...
Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...
Melvin C. Whitman and the rest of the artillery [Annotator's Note: Whitman was a member of Battery L, 3rd Battalion,...
Francis Borrell was woken up early one morning and was told about the Japanese surrendering. Everyone was celebrating,...
William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...
James Weller and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 62nd Armored Field Artillery battalion] passed through Aachen and...
When the GIs started pushing the Germans back [Annotator's Note: during the later stages of the Battle of the Bulge],...
When the war ended, Thomas Ballew's unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 231st Searchlight Battalion] was in Furth...
[Annotator's Note: Clifford Suthern Hayes fell ill and was sent to a hospital to recover.] Clifford Suthern Hayes was...
At the end of the battle [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Louis R. Lepore was brought back to the beach and given a...
Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...
Jimmy Doi encountered Italian fascists at San Terenzo. San Terenzo was their last big battle. They were down in a gully...

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